# The public festival page

> From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-festival-page

Every festival can have **one public web page of its own** — a page anyone can
open, with or without an account, and that search engines may index while it
is on. It says what the festival is, when it happens, what it takes
submissions in and where it screens, and — while one of its seasons has an
open judge call — **what judging pays and how to apply**. That last part is
what the page is for: it is the link you send judges.

You build it on the page itself. **Edit page** turns the page into a form,
in place, and **Save changes** publishes what you typed straight away.

The page lives at

```
https://filmscorecard.com/f/<organization>/<festival>
```

and is **off until somebody turns it on**. A festival's page is a different
thing from a film's — for the page a filmmaker can publish for one film, see
[The public film page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-page.md).

## Turning the page on

The switch is the first row of the **Festival profile** card on
[Settings → Festival](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#festival), and it saves with the
rest of that tab.

1. Open **Settings** for the festival. The Festival tab opens first.
2. Turn on **Public festival page**. It reads **Visible to anyone with the
   link**, and a bar appears at the bottom of the screen: **Unsaved changes on
   Festival**.
3. Choose **Save changes** on that bar.

The page is up from that moment; there is nothing to wait for and no approval.
**The page's address is in the Page link box under the switch**, with
**Copy** and **Open ↗**. Open ↗ opens the page in a new tab, and it works
whether the page is on or off, so you can look at it before you turn it on.

**The Season overview carries the same switch**, on its **Your public page**
card, and there it acts the moment you press it, with no Save — see
[Your public page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-overview.md#your-public-page).

**Turning it off** is the same switch and the same **Save changes**. From the
next request the address answers [Page not found](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/page-not-found.md), the
same screen a mistyped address gets.

**Nothing is sent either way.** No email, no notice to your judges, and no
announcement on the judge portal.

### While the page is off

Visitors, and anybody signed in who cannot edit the page, get "page not found"
— your festival's existence is not revealed to them.

**The people who can edit it still see it**, with an amber **Not public** pill
beside **Edit page** in the top bar. You can build the whole page, save it and
read it back before anybody else can, then switch it on when it is ready.
While it is off, search engines are told not to index what you are looking at.

## The address

The address is your organization's part of every FilmScorecard address, then
the festival's **Public address** from the same Festival profile card — the
line under that field prints the page's address as you type:

```
filmscorecard.com/f/riverside-collective/riverside-shorts-festival
```

**Changing the Public address moves the page, and nothing forwards from the old
one** — whether you change it in Settings or on the page itself, in edit
mode. The old address answers "page not found" straight away, so a link you
shared, a link in a judge's inbox and a link somebody posted all stop working.
Send the new one to whoever has the old. See
[Changing the public address](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#changing-the-public-address).

## Who can edit it

**The same people who can open Settings:** organization owners, org admins,
and festival admins of this festival — anybody who holds **Edit festival
settings and team** with a role that can change the season. See
[Festival access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-access.md#capabilities).

**Coordinators, programmers and viewers cannot.** They get the visitor's page
with no **Edit page** button while it is on, and "page not found" while it is
off. Every save and every image upload is checked again on the server, so a
refusal holds however it was attempted.

Two finer points:

- **It is decided on the season the page is showing** (see
  [Which season the page shows](#which-season-the-page-shows)). Somebody whose
  access is limited to one season can edit the page only while it shows that
  season.
- **The same people turn the page on and off**, because the switch is on the
  Settings screen they are the only ones to reach.

## What visitors see

Everybody sees the same page, apart from the top bar and the Judging tab's
apply card, which answer to who is looking. Top to bottom:

### The top bar

The FilmScorecard mark, which opens the home page; the festival's name; and
section links — **About**, one per tab the page has, and **Contact** while the
Contact card shows. A link to a tab selects that tab. On a window narrower than
about 1100 pixels the section links are not drawn.

On the right:

- **Signed out**, a **Log in** button. Logging in brings you back to this page.
- **Signed in**, your name, a line under it and your initials. The line reads
  **Festival admin** for anybody who can edit the page — owners included —
  **Judge** for an account with a judge profile, and nothing otherwise. On a
  phone only the initials are drawn. They are not a menu: there is no account
  menu or sign-out on this page.
- **For the people who can edit it**, **Edit page** beside the name, and the
  **Not public** pill while the page is off.

### The hero

In this order, each one left out rather than drawn empty:

- **The backdrop**, a wide image behind the top of the page. Without one — with
  it switched off, or when its image will not load — the hero simply starts
  higher.
- **The logo**, square. The same logo as on Settings → Festival.
- **The season pill** — **FALL 2026**.
- **The festival's name.**
- **The description** — the season's **Description** in Settings, once called
  its tagline — in italics, cut to two lines. When it runs longer, **More**
  under it opens the rest in place, and **Less** folds it back. A description
  that fits in two lines has no More.
- **One line of facts**, joining whichever of these exist:
  - **the next date** as a chip — **Final submission deadline Oct 12, 2026** — the first
    row on the Dates tab that has not started yet;
  - **the edition** — **12th edition**;
  - **the location**;
  - **the festival's own dates** — **Oct 30 to Nov 2, 2026**.

Then the buttons:

| Button | When it is drawn | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Submit on FilmFreeway ↗** | Settings → Festival has a **FilmFreeway submission link**. | Opens that page in a new tab. |
| **Judge this season** | A judge call is open on the season. | Selects the Judging tab. |
| **Share** | Always. | Copies the page's address — see [Sharing the page](#sharing-the-page). |

### About

The festival's About text, then **Festival director** and **Programming
partner** with a name after each, either one left out when empty. With no About,
director or partner at all, the section and its link in the top bar are not
drawn.

### The tabs

| Tab | When it is there |
| --- | --- |
| **Judging** | Only while a judge call is open on the season. It is then the tab the page opens on. |
| **Dates** | Always. The page opens on it when there is no Judging tab. |
| **Categories** | Always. |
| **Venues** | While the **Venues** switch is on **and** at least one venue is listed. |
| **Reviews** | Always. |

#### Judging

Headed **Judge this season**, with **Applications close** and the date beside
the heading. Then one card:

- **OPEN CALL FOR JUDGES** and the call's name — **Judge call** on every call
  opened from Settings, which collects no name for it.
- **The facts the call has**, each row left out when it has none: **Judges
  needed**, **Judging window**, **Apply by**, **Formats** and **Languages**. A
  call opened from Settings carries **Apply by** and **Formats**; the rest are
  not collected there — see
  [What this card cannot do](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-a-judge-call.md#what-this-card-cannot-do).
  **A pace the call posted is not shown.**
- **What it pays: a table of the call's categories**, headed **Categories** and
  then **Creative** and/or **Technical** — one price column for each kind of
  judging the call hires for. The categories sit under a **Film** heading and
  then a **Screenplay** heading, and a heading with nothing under it is not
  drawn. A cell reads the figure per scorecard, **Not priced** when nothing is
  set — never `$0.00` — or **—** when that category cannot be judged that way.
  - **On a paying season whose organization has set payment terms**, one line
    under the table says when judges are paid — "Paid 30 days after invoice".
  - **On a volunteer season**, a **Volunteer panel** box — "Judges on this
    season's panel are not paid per scorecard." — and the table has no price
    columns.

  The figures are the ones the
  [open-calls board](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/open-calls.md#money-on-these-screens) shows for the same
  call, worked out from the categories you opened on it. **The table scrolls**
  — sideways on a narrow window with the category column held in place, and
  down once it is long, with its headings held in place.
- **The apply card** at the foot, which depends on who is looking:

| The viewer | The card |
| --- | --- |
| Has not applied to this call | **Apply to judge this round**, "The application asks for the categories you want and the formats and languages you cover." and an **Apply to judge** button. Signed out, a line adds "Log in or create a judge account with an email code, then apply." Signed in without a finished judge profile: "You're signed in as *name*." |
| Has applied, and it is not decided | **Applied** and the date, "The festival replies by email, and the decision shows here and on your judge dashboard." and **View application**. |
| Was accepted | **Accepted** and the date, "You're on the *call name* panel.", a line about when judging opens — see below — and **Open judge dashboard**. |
| Was declined | **Not selected** and the date, "The festival chose its panel for this round. Other festivals' calls are listed under open calls." and **Browse open calls**. |

**The accepted applicant's line about judging** follows the season, not just
its dates:

| The season | The line |
| --- | --- |
| Its judging start date is still ahead | "Judging opens *date* on your judge dashboard." |
| The festival has opened judging on it, and the date has come | "Judging opens *date* on your judge dashboard." — the same line, with the date it opened |
| The festival has **not** opened judging on it, and its start date has come or passed | "*Festival name* hasn't opened judging yet." — with no date, because the date alone opens nothing; the festival still has to open judging. It matches the line the judge's own dashboard shows. |
| It has no judging start date | No line. |

**This changed.** The line used to print the start date whatever had happened,
so an accepted judge could read "Judging opens" with a date already behind it
on a season the festival had not opened. See
[Opening judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md).

A judge with an application also sees an **Applied**, **Accepted** or **Not
selected** pill beside the call's name. **Nobody is told how many people have
applied**, on this page or anywhere else.

Applying itself happens on the judge portal — see
[Applying to judge from the page](#applying-to-judge-from-the-page).

#### Dates

Headed **Dates and deadlines**, with the season and its time zone beside it —
**Fall 2026, Los Angeles time**. One row per date, earliest first:

- **The dates you add on the page** — submissions open, an early deadline,
  anything else you want listed.
- **Festival** — the festival's own start and end dates.
- **The dates FilmScorecard acts on**, each only when it is set: **Final
  submission deadline**, **Notification date** and **Award winners announced**
  from the Season tab; **Judging**, the season's judging window, as dates; and
  **Judge applications close**, while a judge call is open. The page and
  Settings call these dates by the same names — the ones FilmFreeway uses.

**A date that has passed is greyed**, and the first date that has not started
yet carries a **Next** pill — the same one the hero's chip names. With every
date behind you, nothing carries the pill and the hero has no chip. "Today" is
always today in the season's own time zone. With no dates at all the tab reads
**No dates yet**.

#### Categories

Headed **Submission categories**, with a count. One card per category on the
season, in the season's own order, each with its kind — **Film**,
**Screenplay** or **Episode** — and its length limit from your library. A
category made for this season alone, with no library record, shows its name and
nothing else. With none attached, the tab reads **No categories yet**.

When Settings → Festival has a **FilmFreeway submission link**, a box under the cards reads
**Submissions are taken on FilmFreeway** — "Entry fees, rules and the entry form
are on the festival's FilmFreeway page." — with its own **Submit on FilmFreeway
↗** button.

#### Venues

One card per venue: its photo — left out when it has none; edit mode shows a
striped placeholder there to upload one — its
name, its address and what happens there. There are no screening times and no
tickets.

#### Reviews

Headed **Reviews**, with one line: **No reviews yet**. There is no count and no
way to write a review yet; the tab is there for when there is.

### The three cards beside the tabs

On a wide window they sit in a column to the right; on a narrower one they
follow the tabs.

**Organizer**, while the **Organizer card** switch is on. Your organization's
initials in a round plate, its name, **Festivals run** and **Seasons run**, and
one row per festival — **This festival** under this one's name, and every other
row a link to that festival's page. **Only festivals whose page is on are
counted or listed**, so a festival you have not announced never appears on
another one's page. Seasons count once they have left draft.

**Details**, each row left out when it has nothing: **Edition**, **Founded**,
**Location**, **Festival** (its dates), **Formats** (the kinds of category on
the season), **Categories** (how many) and **Submissions** — **FilmFreeway**,
a link, when Settings → Festival has a FilmFreeway submission link.

**Contact**, while the **Contact** switch is on:

- **Festival office** — the office email, as a link, and the phone number.
- **Judging coordinator** — the **Where applicants send questions** address
  from the Open judge call card on Settings → Judging, shown only while a judge
  call is open **and** that address is set. Left blank, no address is shown for
  judge questions — the office email does not stand in. See
  [Where applicants send questions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-a-judge-call.md#where-applicants-send-questions).
- **Email the festival**, a button that writes to the office email. No office
  email, no button.
- **The website and the social profile**, printed without their `https://`.

**Every link a festival typed in** — the website, the social profile and the
FilmFreeway page — opens in a new tab.

### The footer

**© 2026** and the festival's name on the left; on the right, **Hosted on
FilmScorecard ·** and the page's address.

## Which season the page shows

A festival has many seasons and the page shows one. It picks, in order:

1. **The season with an open judge call.** If more than one season has one, the
   season whose call opened most recently.
2. Otherwise, **the season the festival opens on** — the starred season, unless
   it is archived — or else its newest. See
   [The season a festival opens on](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/the-season-a-festival-opens-on.md).

**The description, the location, the edition, the director and programming
partner, the office email and phone, the dates and the venues all belong to a
season.** So the page changes when the season it shows changes: open a judge
call on next season and the page moves to next season, with next season's
description, dates and venues. **Edit mode edits the season the page is
showing.**

The festival's name, logo, backdrop, About, founded year, website, social
profile, FilmFreeway page and the six Show on page switches belong to the
festival and are the same whichever season shows.

**A festival whose every season is archived** shows no season at all: the
festival's own parts only, with no season pill and no season dates, categories
or venues.

## Editing the page

### Entering edit mode

Press **Edit page** in the top bar. The page stays where it is and its
editable parts become fields, at the same place and size as they will read.

- The top bar becomes an **Editing** bar: the **Editing** pill, the line
  "*Festival name* public page. Changes go live when you save." — not drawn on a
  phone — and **Cancel** and **Save changes**.
- A **Show on page** panel docks on the left. On a window narrower than about
  1024 pixels it sits above the page instead.
- **The festival's name becomes a field**, at the size it reads, and under the
  hero two more appear: **Public address** and **FilmFreeway submission link**.

**Edit mode lasts until you save or cancel.** Reloading the page leaves it, and
**so does any link you follow — without asking, and your unsaved changes are
lost.** That includes the **Festival settings** links in the notes. Save first.

### What you edit on the page

| Where | What | Limits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Hero** | The festival's name, the backdrop (**Replace image**), the logo (**Replace logo**), the description, and under them the **Public address** and the **FilmFreeway submission link**. With no backdrop, **Backdrop image** starts switched off and the hero shows nothing there; switch it on to get the upload box. With no logo, edit mode shows an empty striped logo box with **Add logo**; visitors see no box at all. | Name 120 characters; description 640, with a counter; public address 80; the FilmFreeway link must be a `https://filmfreeway.com/` address |
| **Judging tab** | **Judging opens** and **Judging closes** (a date and a time each), **Apply by**, **Judging coordinator**, and every price in the categories table that shows a figure or **Not priced** — each becomes a box. See [Judging in place](#judging-in-place). | The same rules as Settings |
| **About** | The About text, **Festival director**, **Programming partner** | About 700 characters, with a counter; each name 120 |
| **Dates tab** | The **Festival** row — **Starts** and **Ends, optional** — and your own dates: a name, **Starts**, **Ends, optional**, and ✕ to remove one. **Add a date** adds a row. | Names 60 characters; 20 dates |
| **Venues tab** | Each venue's photo (**Replace photo**), name, address and **What happens here**, and **Remove venue**. **Add a venue** adds a card. | Name 80 characters; address and use 160 each; 12 venues |
| **Details card** | **Edition**, **Founded**, **Location** | Edition a whole number from 1 to 999; founded a four-digit year from 1800 to this year; location 120 characters |
| **Contact card** | **Office email**, **Phone**, **Website**, **Social profile URL** | Phone 40 characters; website and social profile a full address starting with `http://` or `https://` |

**The hero line, the next-date chip, the festival's dates and the Details card
follow your typing**, so you see the page as it will read. **Dates are put in
order when you save**, not while you type, so a row you add stays where you
added it until then.

The **Festival** row cannot be removed. **Add a date** greys out at 20 dates,
and the **Add a venue** card goes at 12 venues. While the **Venues** switch is
on, the Venues tab is there in edit mode even with no venues, so you can add the
first one.

### Some of these are the same values Settings edits

Several fields on the page are not copies: they **are** the Settings field, and
a change on either side is a change on both.

| On the page | In Settings | Also used for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The festival's name | **Festival name** on the Festival tab's Festival profile card | The top of every screen of the festival, and every email that names it |
| The public address | **Public address** on the Festival profile card | This page's own address — see [The address](#the-address) |
| The FilmFreeway submission link | **FilmFreeway submission link** on the Festival profile card | The **Submit on FilmFreeway** buttons |
| The logo | **Logo** on the Festival profile card | The header of every scorecard, and your tile on every film's public page |
| The website | **Website** on the Festival profile card | — |
| The description and the location | **Description** and **Location** on the Season tab's About this season card | The season's open judge call |
| The office email | **Contact email** on the Season tab's About this season card | The foot of every scorecard and the reply address on submitters' emails |
| The **Festival** row's two dates | **Event dates** — **Starts** and **Ends** — on the Season tab's Dates card | — |
| **Judging opens** and **Judging closes** | **Judging** — **Opens** and **Closes** — on the Season tab's Dates card | When judges are offered films |
| **Apply by** and **Judging coordinator** | **Applications close** and **Where applicants send questions** on the Judging tab's Open judge call card | The call on the open-calls board |
| The category prices | Each category's creative and technical rate on Settings → Categories | What every judge on the call is quoted |

So **changing the office email on the page changes where your submitters'
replies go**, **replacing the logo here replaces it on every scorecard**, and
**changing a price here changes it for the whole season**. See
[Festival settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#festival).

### Judging in place

While a judge call is open, edit mode turns the Judging tab's facts into fields:

- **Judging opens** and **Judging closes** — a date field each, with a **Time**
  field beside it, read in the season's own time zone. They replace the
  **Judging window** and **Apply by** rows while you edit. **The date alone is
  enough**: picking it fills the time with 12:00 am for Judging opens and
  11:59 pm for Judging closes, and clearing a time puts that default back
  rather than losing the date — the same as Settings.
- **Apply by** — the call's applications close date.
- **Judging coordinator** — the address judges' questions go to.
- **Every price in the categories table** that prints a figure or **Not
  priced** becomes a box in dollars. A **—** stays a **—**: that category has no
  scorecard for that kind of judging, so there is nothing to price.

**They save through the same actions Settings uses, with the same rules and
the same refusals** — judging dates Settings would refuse, an apply-by date
that has passed, an address that is not an email, a price it would not take.
A refusal appears under the field it is about, in the words Settings uses, or
on the Editing bar when it names no field. Both judging times stay editable
while judging is open, here as in Settings. See
[Opening a judge call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-a-judge-call.md#editing-the-call-from-your-public-page).

**A changed price is the season's price**, not a figure for this page: every
judge quoted from then on reads it, as if you had changed it on Settings →
Categories. Judges already on your panel keep the rates they agreed.

### What is read-only, and where it is edited

Each of these shows as it does to visitors, with one grey line saying where it
is changed:

| What | The line |
| --- | --- |
| **Final submission deadline**, **Notification date**, **Award winners announced**, **Judging** and **Judge applications close** on the Dates tab | "Edited in Festival settings", under each one — though the last two can also be changed on the Judging tab, above |
| The Categories tab | "Categories are edited in Festival settings." |
| **Formats**, **Categories** and **Submissions** in Details | "Formats, Categories and Submissions come from Festival settings." |
| The Organizer card | "The organization name is edited in Organization settings." |
| The Reviews tab | "Reviews can't be edited or hidden." |

In the full-sentence notes, **Festival settings** is a link to the Settings
screen of the season the page is showing. The short line under each date is
plain text.

**The season itself — its label and year — and the call's switch, roles and
categories are not on the page at all**, in edit mode or out of it. They are
changed in Settings.

### Show on page

Six switches, each hiding one part of the page:

| Switch | What it hides |
| --- | --- |
| **Backdrop image** | The backdrop. |
| **Description** | The description in the hero. |
| **Edition count** | The edition, in the hero line and in Details. |
| **Venues** | The Venues tab and its link in the top bar. |
| **Organizer card** | The Organizer card. |
| **Contact** | The Contact card — office email, phone, coordinator email, website and social profile — and its link in the top bar. |

The line under them reads: "About, Dates, Categories, Details and Reviews always
show. Judging shows while the season has an open call."

**A switched-off part disappears from your edit view too**, the way it will for
visitors, so you cannot change it while it is hidden: switch it back on to edit
it. **Its content is kept**, and comes back when you switch it on. And **hidden
is hidden for real**: the page sends a visitor's browser nothing of a part you
switched off, not just nothing on screen.

The switches are saved with **Save changes**, like everything else.

### Saving

Press **Save changes**. The whole page is checked first, in your browser and
again on the server.

**What a save needs**, whatever you changed:

- **About**, not empty.
- **Location**, not empty.
- **Founded**, a four-digit year.
- **The Festival row's start date.** A season carried over from another one has
  no dates of its own — see
  [Season and festival actions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-actions.md#start-the-next-season) — so
  this is the one most often missing.
- **The office email**, while Contact shows.
- **The edition**, while Edition count shows.
- **A name and a start for every date you list**, and **a name for every venue**
  while Venues shows.

**If anything is wrong, nothing is saved.** Each problem appears in red under
its field and clears as you edit it, and the Editing bar counts them — **"1
field needs fixing"**, **"3 fields need fixing"**. On a phone that line sits
under the bar. A part you switched off is not checked as long as you have not
changed it, so an old value nobody can see never blocks a save.

**When the save goes through** you leave edit mode and a note reads **"Saved.
The public page is updated."** There is no draft and no publish step: visitors
see your changes from their next visit.

**One Save, several writes, in a fixed order.** The page's own fields go first,
then the judging dates, then the apply-by date and coordinator address, then
each price you changed, and **the name, public address and FilmFreeway link
last**. If one of them is refused, the save stops there with that refusal:
**what was already written stays written**, you stay in edit mode, and pressing
**Save changes** again sends only what is left.

**A changed public address moves the page.** Once it saves, you land on the
page's new `/f/` address, and the old one answers "page not found" — see
[The address](#the-address). An address another festival of yours already uses
is refused under the field — "That public address is already used by another
festival in this organization." — and the page stays where it was.

**Two people editing at once.** A save writes only what *you* changed. A date or
a venue somebody else added while you were editing is kept; one you removed is
removed; and if you both changed the same field, the later save wins. Nothing
warns either of you.

### If a save is refused

You stay in edit mode with everything you typed, and one line appears in the
Editing bar:

| The line | It means |
| --- | --- |
| "1 field needs fixing" / "*n* fields need fixing" | See above. |
| "You can no longer edit this page." | Your access changed while you were editing, or the organization was suspended. |
| "This page moved to another season while you were editing. Reload it and try again." | A judge call opened or closed, or the starred season changed, so the page now shows a different season. Copy anything you need to keep, then reload. |
| "The page could not be saved. Try again." | Anything else. Nothing was written. |

The field messages:

| The message | Under |
| --- | --- |
| Write a few lines about the festival. | About, when it is empty. |
| Keep it to 700 characters. | About. |
| Keep the description to 640 characters. | The description. |
| Enter your festival's FilmFreeway page, starting with https://filmfreeway.com/. | The FilmFreeway submission link. |
| That public address is reserved. Choose another. | The public address. |
| Keep it to 120 characters. | Festival director, Programming partner or Location. |
| Enter where the festival takes place. | Location, when it is empty. |
| Enter the year the festival was founded. | Founded, when it is empty. |
| Enter a four-digit year from 1800 to *this year*. | Founded. |
| Enter the edition number. | Edition, empty while Edition count shows. |
| Enter a whole number from 1 to 999. | Edition. |
| Enter the festival office email. | Office email, empty while Contact shows. |
| Enter a valid email address. | Office email. |
| Keep it to 40 characters. | Phone. |
| Enter a full web address starting with http:// or https://. | Website or Social profile URL. |
| Enter the festival's start date. | The Festival row's **Starts**. |
| The end can't be before the start. | Any **Ends, optional**. |
| Name this date. / Enter a start date. / Keep it to 60 characters. | One of your dates. |
| Name this venue. / Keep it to 80 characters. / Keep it to 160 characters. | A venue's name, address or use. |

### Cancel and discard

**Cancel** with nothing changed simply leaves edit mode. With changes — and
picking an image counts — it asks **"Discard your changes?"**:

- **Keep editing**, or Escape, closes the question and leaves you where you
  were.
- **Discard changes**, in amber, throws away everything since **Edit page**,
  including the images you uploaded in that sitting, and leaves edit mode.

## Images

Three places take an image: **Replace image** on the backdrop, **Replace logo**
on the logo (**Add logo** when there is none yet), and **Replace photo** on each
venue.

- **JPG, PNG or WebP.** Anything else is refused with a note reading "Use a JPG,
  PNG or WebP image." and the image stays as it was.
- **Your browser prepares it before it is sent**: it is turned the right way up
  and shrunk — never enlarged — to at most these sizes, and stored in these
  formats:

  | Image | Longest side | Stored as |
  | --- | --- | --- |
  | Logo | 512 pixels | PNG, keeping a transparent background |
  | Backdrop | 2400 pixels | JPEG |
  | Venue photo | 1200 pixels | JPEG |

  Nothing is stored as WebP; a WebP you pick is converted. If the browser cannot
  prepare the image, it is refused with the same note rather than stored as it
  came.
- **It uploads the moment you pick it** — the button reads **Uploading…** — and
  you see it in place straight away. **Visitors do not**, until you save.
- **An upload that fails** says "The image could not be uploaded. Try again."
  and changes nothing.

**There is no Remove button for the logo or the backdrop**, only Replace. To
take the backdrop off the page, switch **Backdrop image** off. A venue's photo
goes with the venue.

**What is cleaned up.** When you save, the images you replaced, and the photos
of venues you removed, are deleted — unless the same image is still in use
elsewhere, such as a venue another season was copied with. When you discard,
the images you uploaded in that sitting are deleted. Closing the tab or
reloading in the middle of an edit deletes nothing, so the images uploaded in
that sitting stay in storage, unused.

**Images are stored at public addresses.** Turning the page off takes the page
down, not an image address somebody already copied.

## Sharing the page

### Share

**Share**, in the hero, copies the page's address and confirms with **"Link
copied."** If the browser will not let the page copy, it says "The link could
not be copied. Copy it from the address bar." — and the address bar holds the
same address. There is no card to build and no choices: it is the address and
nothing else.

### The page link in Settings

The **Page link** box on [Settings → Festival](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#festival),
under the **Public festival page** switch, holds the same address with two
buttons. **Copy** copies it and reads **Copied** — or **Copy failed** if the
browser refused. **Open ↗** opens the page in a new tab. Both are there whether
the page is on or off; while it is off, the line under the box reads "The link
keeps working once you turn the page back on."

**The Open judge call card no longer has a Copy link button.** Copy the
address from the Festival tab instead — see
[Sending judges your public page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-a-judge-call.md#sending-judges-your-public-page).

### The link preview

Pasting the address into a message or a social post shows a preview that
FilmScorecard builds for the page:

- **Its title** is the festival's name and the season — **Riverside Shorts
  Festival · Fall 2026**.
- **Its description** is the first 160 characters of the season's
  description, or with none showing, of the About text. Search engines are
  given the same 160 characters.
- **Its image** is a card with the logo, the season, the festival's name and —
  while a judge call is open — **"Judges wanted · Apply by Oct 12, 2026"**, or
  **"Judges wanted"** when the call has no date. With no logo, the festival's
  initials take its place in a round plate — and so they do when the logo is a
  WebP image, which a logo uploaded in Settings before logos were converted to
  PNG may be. Nothing you can switch off is on the card.

The card follows the page: when the call opens or closes, or the festival or
season changes, the page points at a fresh card. **The preview exists only
while the page is on.** Two things to know about turning it off:

- **The card image may keep being served for up to a day** to somebody holding
  its exact address. The page itself is gone at once.
- **Sites that already showed the preview keep their own copy.** FilmScorecard
  cannot reach into a message thread or a social post and change it.

## Applying to judge from the page

The page's **Apply to judge** button opens the call's application on the judge
portal. What happens next depends on who presses it.

**A judge who is signed in with a finished profile** goes straight to the
application. See [Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md).

**Somebody without an account can create one from here**, even though sign-up
is otherwise in a private beta:

1. Press **Apply to judge**. You are taken to the log-in screen, and its
   **First time here?** note offers **Create an account**.
2. Choose **Create an account**. The sign-up screen has no role cards — the
   account is a judge account — and a note reading "Already have an account? Log
   in with that email instead."
3. Fill in your name and email address, tick the agreement box, and choose
   **Create account**. The beta list is not consulted.
4. Enter the 6-digit code from your email.
5. **You land on the application** — the profile screens of
   [Setting up your judge profile](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/setting-up-your-judge-profile.md) do not
   come first. Sending the application counts as **Skip for now**; once the
   festival takes you on, a **Complete your profile** card on its judging home
   links to those screens.

**This works only while the call is open, the page is on and the organization
is not suspended.** If the call closes or the page is turned off between the
click and the code request, the sign-up is treated as an ordinary one and meets
the beta refusal — see
[Log-in problems](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/log-in-problems.md#this-address-is-not-on-the-beta-list-yet).

**Somebody who already has an account** logs in on that same screen with their
own address, and comes back to the application — straight to it, even if their
judge profile is not finished.

Whatever the account, applying is the ordinary application: the same three
steps, the same box agreeing to the Judge Code of Conduct, the same rules about
who may apply, and the festival decides it on its
[Requests tab](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/judge-requests.md).

## When the page shows "page not found"

The address answers [Page not found](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/page-not-found.md) when:

- **the page is off**, for everybody who cannot edit it;
- **the address is wrong** — mistyped, or the festival's Public address has
  changed since the link was made;
- **the organization is suspended** — for everybody, your own staff included.
  See [When your organization is suspended](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/when-your-organization-is-suspended.md).

All of them read the same, and the same as an address that never existed.

## What the page does not do yet

- **No reviews.** The tab is there and always reads **No reviews yet**.
- **No programme.** The Venues tab has no screenings, times or tickets.
- **No organization logo.** The Organizer card shows your organization's
  initials.
- **One social link.** One profile address, whatever the platform.
- **No forwarding** from an old address after the Public address changes.
- **No warning when you leave edit mode without saving**, by reloading or
  following a link.
- **No choosing the season.** The page shows the one described in
  [Which season the page shows](#which-season-the-page-shows), and edits that
  one.
- **No different name, logo, backdrop, About or switches per season.** They
  belong to the festival.
- **No page-view or apply counts.**

## Related guides

- [Festival settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md) — the Festival tab's **Public
  festival page** switch, **Page link** and **FilmFreeway submission link**;
  the Season tab's description, location and contact email, and its festival
  and judging dates.
- [Opening a judge call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-a-judge-call.md) — the call the Judging tab
  shows, and its **Where applicants send questions** address.
- [Opening judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md) — what "opened" means for a season,
  and why an accepted judge can read that judging has not opened yet.
- [Season and festival actions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-actions.md#start-the-next-season) —
  which of the page's season parts a new season carries over.
- [Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md) — what an applicant
  does after **Apply to judge**.
- [Creating an account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/creating-an-account.md) — the beta, and the two ways
  around it.
- [The public film page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-page.md) — the page a filmmaker can publish
  for one film, which is a different thing.
- [Festival access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-access.md) — the roles and the **Edit festival
  settings and team** capability that decide who edits the page.